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From: "jim stephens via cctalk" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, May 29, 2017 12:06 PM
Subject: Re: What is this bus?
On 5/29/2017 8:38 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
On 5/28/17 8:28 PM, jim stephens via cctalk wrote:
The Pascal Microengine had a black and brushed
aluminum package
There was a bus version. I have cards, but no backplane.
I
saw a lot of WD PME scrap here, even engineering stuff. The staff
shared a building with a friend, and some stuff I had came down the hall
from there to scrap dealers.
I don't recall seeing anything that fit with what the guy had in the
photos here with the open frame supply. Could be for the PME, but would
maybe be a refugee prototype or such.
The offices which had some of the development was in Sky Park Circle in
Irvine, colocated with Technology Marketing, Inc.
Some financial people who had dealings with Microdata's founding owned
the building that had both TMI and the WD offices located there.
Albert Wong (IIRC) of the A in AST worked at TMI with a friend till the
ramp up of AST drew him in.
Thanks
Jim
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FWIW, the power supply looks too professional/commercial to be part of a prototype; it
looks like it's meant to slide into its chassis/cabinet, with a handhold to allow
pulling it out and a spring-loaded latch to lock it into place.
But it's also quite possible that the PS and the backplane don't even belong
together.